Baudin, Arnaud, Benoit, Paul, Rouillard, Joséphine and Rouzeau, Benoit, L'Industrie cistercienne (XIIe–XXIe siècle). Pp. 416 incl. 138 ills. Paris: Somogy éditions d'art. €30 (paper). 978 2 7572 1135 9

Campbell, Gwyn, Africa and the Indian Ocean world from early times to circa 1900. (New Approaches to African History.) Pp. xvi + 305 incl. 21 figs, 23 maps and 12 tables. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. £22.99 (paper). 978 0 521 00806 8

Whelan, Kevin, Religion, landscape and settlement in Ireland. From Patrick to present. Pp. xviii + 284 incl. 58 figs and 8 tables. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2018 (in association with the Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlements). £45. 978 1 84682 756 3

McKechnie, Paul, Christianizing Asia Minor. Conversion, communities, and social change in the pre-Constantinian era. Pp. x + 332 incl. 10 figs. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. £75. 978 1 108 48146 5

Rioual, Gaëlle, Basilii Minimi in Gregorii Nazianzeni Orationes iv et v commentarii. (Corpvs Christianorvm, Series Graeca, 90, Corpus Nazianzenum, 29.) Pp. lxxix + 269 incl. 1 fig and 1 table. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019. €230. 978 2 503 58341 9

Rosenblum, Jordan D., The Jewish dietary laws in the ancient world. Pp. xiv + 193. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019 (first publ. 2016). £18.99 (paper). 978 1 107 46228 1

Schott, Jeremy M. (trans.), The history of the Church by Eusebius of Caesarea. A new translation. Pp. xii + 536 incl. 2 maps. Oakland, Ca: University of California Press, 2019. £13.99 (paper). 978 0 520 29110 2

Stefaniw, Blossom, Christian reading. Language, ethics, and the order of things. Pp. x + 249. Oakland, Ca: University of California Press, 2019. £74. 978 0 520 30061 3

Ambler, Sophie Thérèse, The song of Simon de Montfort. England's first revolutionary and the death of chivalry. Pp. xx + 428 incl. 30 colour ills and 1 table and 7 maps. London: Picador, 2019. £20. 978 1 5098 3757 1

Ashe, Laura and Hanna, Ralph (eds), Medieval and early modern religious cultures. Essays honouring Vincent Gillespie on his sixty-fifth birthday. Pp. xii + 284 incl. 7 ills. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2019. £60. 978 1 84384 529 4

Balzaretti, Ross, The lands of Saint Ambrose. Monks and society in early medieval Milan. (Studies in the Early Middle Ages, 44.) Pp. xviii + 643 incl. 18 figs, 13 maps and 28 tables. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019. €125. 978 2 503 50977 8; 1377 8099

Beaulande-Barraud, Véronique, Les Péchés les plus grands. Hiérarchie de l’Église et for de la penitence (France, Angleterre, xiiie–xve siècle). (Histoire.) Pp. 356 incl. 7 tables. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes/Société D'Histoire Religieuse de la France. €25 (paper). 978 2 7535 7738 1

Brooks, Britton Elliott, Restoring creation. The natural world in the Anglo-Saxon saints’ Lives of Cuthbert and Guthlac. Pp. viii + 315. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2019. £70. 978 1 84384 530 0

Carter, Michael, The art and architecture of the Cistercians in Northern England, c.1300–1540. (Medieval Monastic Studies, 3.) Pp. xlviii + 329 incl. 103 figs, 8 colour plates and 2 maps. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019. €100. 978 2 503 58193 4

Chazelle, Celia, The Codex Amiatinus and its ‘sister’ Bibles. (Commentaria. Sacred Texts and their Commentaries: Jewish, Christian and Islamic, 10.) Pp. xxviii + 634 incl. 33 colour plates, 31 figs, 3 maps and 15 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2019. €116. 978 90 04 39013 3; 1874 8236

De Jong, Mayke, Epitaph for an era. Politics and rhetoric in the Carolingian world. Pp. xxii + 262 incl. 4 tables and 1 map. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. £75. 978 1 107 01431 2

Dyson, Gerald P., Priests and their books in late Anglo-Saxon England. (Anglo-Saxon Studies.) Pp. x + 286 incl. 9 plates and 5 tables. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2019. £60. 978 1 78327 366 9

Field, Sean L., Courting sanctity. Holy women and the Capetians. Pp. xvi + 266 incl. 3 maps. Ithaca–London: Cornell University Press, 2019. £33. 978 1 5017 3619 3

Hütter, Reinhard, Aquinas on transubstantiation. The real presence of Christ in the eucharist. (Thomistic Ressourcement Series, 13.) Pp. x + 134. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2019. $34.95 (paper). 978 0 8132 3177 8

Jordan, William Chester, The apple of his eye. Coverts from Islam to the reign of Louis IX. (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World.) Pp. xvi + 181 incl. 2 ills and 2 maps. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019. £27. 978 0 691 19011 2

Larson, Atria A., Gratian's Tractatus de penitentia. A new Latin edition with English translation. (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Canon Law, 14.) Pp. xlviii + 312. Washington, DC: Catholic University of American Press, 2016. $69.95. 978 081 22867 9

Linehan, Peter, At the edge of reformation. Iberia before the Black Death. Pp. xii + 246 incl. 1 map. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. £65. 978 0 19 883419 9

Moore, Jill, Inquisition and its organization in Italy, 1250–1350. (Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages, 8.) Pp. xii + 302 incl. 1 fig and 1 map. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press (York Medieval Press), 2019. £60. 978 1 903153 89 5

Moss, Rachel, O'Mahony, Felicity and Maxwell, Jane (eds), An insular odyssey. Manuscript culture in early Christian Ireland and beyond. Pp. 334 incl. 146 colour ills. Dublin–Portland, Or: Four Courts Press, 2017. £50. 978 1 84682 633 7

Neocleous, Savvas, Heretics, schismatics, or Catholics? Latin attitudes to the Greeks in the long twelfth century. Pp. xvi + 291. Toronto, On: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2019. $95. 978 0 88844 216 1

Oftestad, Eivor Andersen, The Lateran Church in Rome and the ark of the covenant. Housing the holy relics of Jerusalem. With an edition and translation of the Descriptio Lateranensis Ecclesiae (Bav Reg. Lat. 712). (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion, XLVIII.) Pp. xvi + 260 incl. 2 tables. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2019. £75. 978 1 78327 388 1

Reynolds, Philip L. (ed.), Great Christian jurists and legal collections in the first millennium. (Studies in Law and Christianity.) Pp. xviii + 489. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. £99.99. 978 1 108 47171 8

Slocum, Kay Brainerd, The cult of Thomas Becket. History and historiography through eight centuries. (Sanctity in Global Perspective.) Pp. xii + 340 incl. 9 figs. London–New York: Routledge, 2019. £115. 978 1 138 10328 3

Smith, Christine and O'Connor, Joseph F., Eyewitness to Old St. Peter's. Maffeo Vegio's ‘Remembering the ancient history of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. with translation and a digital reconstruction of the church’. Pp. xvi + 307 incl. frontispiece, 52 black-and-white and colour figs. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. £75. 978 1 108 49685 8

Stone, Linda M. A., ‘Slay them not’. Twelfth-century Christian-Jewish relations and the glossed Psalms. (Commentaria. Sacred Texts and their Commentaries: Jewish, Christian and Islamic, 11.) Pp. xii + 210. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2019. €86. 978 90 04 34259 0; 1874 8236

Thomas, Arvind, Piers Plowman and the reinvention of church law in the late Middle Ages. Pp. xiv + 267. Toronto–London: University of Toronto Press, 2019. $75. 978 1 4875 0246 1

Van Houts, Elisabeth, Married life in the Middle Ages, 900–1300. (Oxford Studies in Medieval European History.) Pp. xii + 298 incl. 3 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. £65. 978 0 19 879889 7

Vavra, Elisabeth (ed.), Die Welt und Gott – Gott und die Welt? Zum Verhältnis von Religiosität und Profanität ‘christlichen Mittelater’. (Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zu Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, 9.) Pp. 412 incl. 50 colour and black-and-white ills. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter. €68. 978 3 8253 6964 4

Wangerin, Laura E., Kingship and justice in the Ottonian empire. Pp. xiv + 229 incl. 12 figs, 2 maps and 1 table. Ann Arbor, Mi: University of Michigan Press, 2019. $75. 978 0 472 13139 6

Bingham, Matthew C., Orthodox radicals. Baptist identity in the English revolution. (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology.) Pp. xii + 234. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. £64. 978 0 19 091236 9

Collins, Matthew A. and Middleton, Paul (eds), Matthew Henry. The Bible, prayer and piety. A tercentenary celebration. Pp. xii + 287 incl. 6 figs. London–New York: T&T Clark, 2019. £95. 978 0 5676 7021 2

Donlan, Thomas A., The reform of zeal. François de Sales and militant French Catholicism. (St Andrews Studies in French History and Culture, 9.) Pp. iv + 145. St Andrews: Centre for French History and Culture of the University of St Andrews, 2018. £xxx (paper). 978 1 907548 16 1

Fehler, Timothy G. and Hartman, Abigail J. (eds), Signs and wonders in Britain's age of revolution. A sourcebook. Pp. viii + 314 incl. 27 ills. London–New York: Routledge, 2019. £110. 978 1 138 49205 9

Foresta, Patrizio and Meloni, Federica (eds), Arts, portraits and representation in the reformation era. Proceedings of the fourth reformation research consortium conference. (Refo500 Academic Studies, 37.) Pp. 496 incl. 111 colour and black-and-white figs. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019. €120. 978 3 525 55249 0; 2198 3089

Hadass, Ofer, Medicine, religion, and magic in early Stuart England. Richard Napier's medical practice. (The Magic in History Series.) Pp. xvi + 213 incl. 9 ills. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018. £24.95. 978 0 271 08018 5

Hough, Adam Glen, The peace of Augsburg and the Meckhart confession. Moderate religion in an age of militancy. (Studies in Modern History.) Pp. x + 341 incl. 9 figs. Abingdon–New York: Routledge, 2019. £115. 978 0 367 20449 5

Iliffe, Rob, Priest of nature. The religious worlds of Isaac Newton. Pp. xii + 522 incl. 20 colour plates. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. £16.99 (paper). 978 0 19 093159 9

Kauko, Mikko, Norro, Miika, Nummila, Kirsi-Maria, Toropainen, Tanja and Fonsén, Tuomo (eds), Languages in the Lutheran Reformation. Textual networks and the spread of ideas. (Crossing Boundaries.) Pp. 307 incl. 10 figs and 1 table. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. £90. 978 94 6298 155 3

Kerr-Peterson, Miles, A Protestant lord in James VI's Scotland. George Keith, fifth Earl Marischal (1554–1623). (St Andrews Studies in Scottish History.) Pp. xvi + 238 incl. 4 figs, 3 maps and 2 tables. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2019. £60. 978 1 78327 376 8

McCallum, John, Poor relief and the Church in Scotland, 1560–1650. (Scottish Religious Cultures.) Pp. xii + 268 incl. 3 tables and 1 map. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018. £75. 978 1 4744 2727 2

Mahon, Katharine, Teach us to pray. The Lord's Prayer, catechesis, and ritual reform in the sixteenth century. Pp. x + 169. Lanham, Ma–London: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2019. £65. 978 1 9787 0684 2

Malcolm, Noel, Useful enemies. Islam and the Ottoman Empire in western political thought, 1450–1750. Pp. xiv + 487. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. £25. 978 0 19 883013 9

Murphy, Neil, The Tudor occupation of Boulogne. Conquest, colonization and imperial monarchy, 1544–1550. Pp. xviii + 296 incl. 4 figs and 1 map. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. £75. 978 1 108 47201 2

Prudlo, Donald S. (ed.), A companion to heresy inquisitions. (Companions to the Christian Tradition, 85.) Pp. x + 324 incl. 2 tables. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2019. €198. 978 90 04 36090 7; 1871 6377

Questier, Michael, Dynastic politics and the British reformations, 1558–1630. Pp. xviii + 499. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. £35. 978 0 19 882633 0

Rittgers, Ronald K. and Evener, Vincent (eds), Protestants and mysticism in Reformation Europe. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. xiv + 459. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2019. €156. 978 90 04 39317 2; 2468 4317

Shamir, Avner, Incombustible Lutheran books in early modern Germany. (Studies in Modern History.) Pp. viii + 196 incl. 10 figs. Abingdon–New York: Routledge, 2019. £115. 978 0 367 15120 1

Soyer, François, Antisemitic conspiracy theories in the early modern Iberian world. Narratives of fear and hatred. (The Iberian Religious World, 5.) Pp. xvi + 315 incl. 4 figs and 3 maps. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2019. €198. 978 90 04 39550 3; 2213 9141

Temple, Liam Peter, Mysticism in early modern England. (Studies in Modern British Religious History, 38.) Pp. x + 225 incl. 4 ills. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2019. £60. 978 1 78327 393 5

Ward, Madeleine, The Christian Quaker. George Keith and the Keithian controversy. (Quaker Studies.) Pp. vi + 101. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2019. €70. 978 90 04 39357 8

Aston, Nigel and Bankhurst, Benjamin (eds), Negotiating toleration. Dissent and the Hanoverian succession, 1714–1760. Pp. x + 261. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. £75. 978 0 19 880422 2

Breytenbach, Cilliers and Markschies, Christoph, Adolf Deissmann. Ein (zu Unrecht) fast vergessener Theologe und Philologe. (Supplements to Novum Testamentum, 174.) Pp. xx + 303 incl. colour frontispiece and 16 colour and black-and-white ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2019. €118. 978 90 04 39018 8; 0167 9732

Dompnier, Bernard and Nanni, Stefania (eds), La Mémoire des saints originels entre XVIe et XVIIIe siècle. (Collection de l’École française de Rome, 545.) Pp. iv + 557 incl. 36 figs and 8 tables. Rome: École française de Rome, 2019. €40 (paper). 978 2 7283 1300 6; 0223 5099

Earner-Byrne, Lindsay, Letters of the Catholic poor. Poverty in independent Ireland, 1920–1940. Pp. xii + 284 incl. 5 ills. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019 (first publ. 2017.) £24.99 (paper). 978 1 316 63180 5

Elior, Rachel, Jacob Frank's book of the words of the Lord. Mystical automythography, religious nihilism and the messianic vision of freedom and a realization of myth and metaphor. (Studies in Spirituality, 31. Titus Brandsma Institute.) Pp. viii + 112. Leuven–Bristol, Ct: Peeters, 2018. €44 (paper). 978 90 429 3650 8

Hummel, Karl-Joseph and Kißener, Michael (eds) (trans. Morrisey, Christof), Catholics and the Third Reich. Controversies and debate. Pp. 315 incl. 12 black-and-white and colour ills, 3 colour maps and 1 table. Leiden: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2018. €79. 978 3 506 78786 6

Kloes, Andrew, The German awakening. Protestant renewal after the Enlightenment, 1815–1848. (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology.) Pp. xvi + 328 incl. 8 tables. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. £64. 978 0 19 093686 0

Munden, Alan (ed.), The religious census of Cumbria, 1851. Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness. (Surtees Society, 223; Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, 23.) Pp. cvi + 381 incl. 1 ill. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press (for the Surtees Society and the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society), 2019. £50. 978 0 85444 078 8; 0307 5362

Onnekink, David and Rommelse, Gijs (eds), The Dutch in the early modern world. A history of a global power. Pp. xxii + 293 incl. 17 figs and 3 maps. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. £22.99 (paper). 978 1 107 57292 8

Reynolds, Christine (ed.) (intro. Dean, Ptolemy), Surveyors of the fabric of Westminster Abbey, 1906–1973. Reports and letters. (Westminster Abbey Records Series.) Pp. xxx + 385 incl. 1 map. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2019. £60. 978 1 78327 420 8

Schatz, Klaus, Jesuiten in Schweden (1879–2001). Pp. 194 incl. 40 ills. Münster: Aschendorff, 2019. €36. 978 3 402 13427 6

Spaans, Joke and Touber, Jetze (eds), Enlightened religion. From confessional Churches to polite piety in the Dutch republic. (Studies in Intellectual History, 297.) Pp. xii + 378 incl. 40 colour and black-and-white ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2019. €149. 978 90 04 29892 7; 0920 8607

Stolle, Volker, Lutherische Kirche im gesellschaftlichen Wandel des. 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Aus der Geschichte selbstständiger evangelisch-lutherischer Kirchen in Deutschland. (Oberurseler Hafte Ergänzungsbände, 23.) Pp. 476. Göttingen: Edition Ruprecht, 2019. €78. 978 3 8469 0310 0

Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge, Maryks, Robert Aleksander and Hsia, R. P. (eds), Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Asia and the Americas. (Jesuit Studies, 14; The Boston College International Symposia on Jesuit Studies, 3.) Pp. x + 365 incl. 28 black-and-white and colour ills. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2018. €135. 978 90 04 35768; 2214 3289

Chavura, Stephen, Gascoigne, John and Tregenza, Ian (eds), Reason, religion and the Australian polity. A secular state? (Studies in Modern History.) Pp. xii + 296. Abingdon–New York: Routledge, 2019. £115. 978 1 138 60318 9

Cruickshank, Joanna and Grimshaw, Patricia, White women, aboriginal missions and Australian settler governments. Maternal contradictions. (Studies in Christian Mission, 56.) Pp. x + 207 incl. 4 maps. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2019. €99. 978 90 04 39700 2

Dandekar, Deepra, The Subhedar's son. A narrative of Brahmin-Christian conversion from nineteenth-century Maharashtra. (American Academy of Religion. Religion in Translation.) Pp. xliv + 222 incl. 5 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. £64. 978 0 19 091404 2

Kaiser, Andrew T., Encountering China. The evolution of Timothy Richard's missionary thought (1870–1891). (Evangelical Missiological Society Monograph Series.) Pp. xx + 261. Eugene, Or: Pickwick Publications, 2019. $27.20 (paper). 978 1 5326 6413 7

Laamann, Lars Peter and Lee, Joseph Tse-Hei, The Church as a safe haven. Christian governance in China. (Studies in Christian Mission, 55.) Pp. xvi + 330 incl. 3 figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2019. €143. 978 90 04 38373 9; 0924 9389X

Loffman, Reuben A., Church, State and colonialism in southeastern Congo, 1890–1962. (Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series.) Pp. xxii + 281 incl. frontispiece and 13 figs. Cham: Springer Nature, 2019. £69.99. 978 3 030 17379 1

Morier-Genoud, Eric, Catholicism and the making of politics in central Mozambique, 1940–1986. (Studies in African History and the Diaspora.) Pp. xviii + 245 incl. 16 figs and 11 tables. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2019. £95. 978 1 58046 941 8; 1092 5228

Webster, John C. B., A social history of Christianity. North-west India since 1800. (Oxford India Paperbacks.) Pp. xiv + 411 incl. 3 maps and 5 tables. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2019 (first publ. 2007). £15.99 (paper). 978 0 19 947837 8

Wickeri, Philip L. and Chen, Ruiwen (eds), Thy kingdom come. A photographic history of Anglicanism in Hong Kong, Macau, and Mainland China. Pp. xx + 203 incl. 177 colour and black-and-white ills. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2019. HK$ 520. 978 988 8528 02 8

Cope, Rachel and Hutchins, Zachary McLeod (eds), The writing of Elizabeth Webb. A Quaker missionary in America, 1697–1726. Pp. x + 226. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019. £17.95 (paper). 978 0 271 08223 3

Crewe, Ryan Dominic, The Mexican mission. Indigenous reconstruction and mendicant enterprise in New Spain, 1521–1600. (Cambridge Latin American Studies.) Pp. xviii + 309 incl. 12 figs, 2 maps and 3 tables. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. £75. 978 1 108 49254 6

Fromont, Cécile, Afro-Catholic festival in the Americas. Performance, representation, and the making of black Atlantic tradition. (Africana Religions.) Pp. xii + 203 incl. 6 figs and 10 colour plates. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019. £63.95. 978 0 271 08329 2

Gamble, Richard M., A fiery gospel. The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the road to righteous war. (Religion and American Public Life.) Pp. xii + 283 incl. 22 figs. London–Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. $28.95. 978 1 5017 3641 4

George, Carol V. R. (foreword Bowler, Kate), God's salesman. Norman Vincent Peale and the power of positive thinking. Pp. xviii + 300 incl. 27 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. £16.99 (paper). 978 0 19 0914769

Grainger, Brett Malcolm, Church in the wild. Evangelicals in antebellum America. Pp. viii + 271 incl. 6 figs. Cambridge, Ma–London: Harvard University Press, 2019. £32.95. 978 0 674 91937 2

Green, Steven K., The third disestablishment. Church, state, and American culture, 1940–1975. Pp. xii + 442. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. £25.99. 978 0 19 090814 0

Long, Kathryn T., God in the rainforest. A tale of martyrdom and redemption in Amazonian Ecuador. Pp. xxii + 446 incl. 10 figs and 5 maps. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. £22.99. 978 0 19 060898 9

Sack, Susan Kassman, America's Teilhard. Christ and hope in the 1960s. Pp. xii + 324 incl. frontispiece. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2019. $34.95 (paper). 978 0 8132 3165 5

Atherstone, Andrew and Jones, David Ceri (eds), Making Evangelical history. Faith, scholarship and the Evangelical past. (Studies in Evangelicalism.) Pp. viii + 296. London–New York: Routledge, 2019. £115. 978 1 4724 6628 0

Chapman, Mark D. and Bonner, Jeremy (eds), Costly communion. Ecumenical initiative and sacramental strife in the Anglican communion. (Anglican-Episcopal Theology and History, 4.) Pp. x + 323. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2019. €55 (paper). 978 90 04 38869 7; 2405 7576

Jacobs, Alan, The year of our Lord, 1943. Christian humanism in an age of crisis. Pp. xxx + 256. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. £20. 978 0 19 086465 1

McCoog, Thomas M., sj, With eyes and ears open. The role of visitors in the Society of Jesus. (Jesuit Studies, 21.) Pp. x + 315 incl. 18 figs. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2019. €149. 978 90 04 39483 4; 2214 3289

Oftestad, Bernt T., The Catholic Church and liberal democracy. (Studies in Modern History.) Pp. xii + 214. London–New York: Routledge, 2019. £115. 978 1 138 71466 3

Sisman, Adam, The professor and the parson. A story of desire, deceit and defrocking. Pp. viii + 232 incl. 27 ills. London: Profile Books, 2019. £12.99. 978 1 78816 211 1